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Impera

Respite on the Spitalfields

Impera
2022

Duration: 6:42

Track number: 12

Times played live: 54

Writers

Lyrics by: Tobias Forge

Music by: Tobias Forge

Theme

The album's closing track, lyrically inspired by Jack the Ripper and the terror that gripped Spitalfields. The song captures the psychological aftermath—people wondering when the next attack will come, unable to return to normalcy. Despite a deceptively uplifting tone, the lyric 'the king that we hailed was the Wizard of Oz' reveals the ultimate truth: the empire was an illusion, the leader a mirage, power itself a grand deception.

Lyrics
We are here in the after Of a murderous crafter The past... Is spun like a yarn and mangled With flesh and blood and bones I wonder Did no one hear the distant thunder? The autumnal reaper The stains of this creeper ...Will last The shine and the sham entangled Like salting earth with tears of Jesus He sliced and diced our dreams to pieces For the dreams that you dread Can becomе just as real As the blood that was shed With thе slash of his steel Now the street walking dead Was quite a scene, wasn't it? For the lost and mislead Were promised seats by the pit We will break away together I will be the shadow You will be the light Nothing ever lasts forever We will go softly into the night We are leaving this city So this is farewell Goodbye Seven Sisters And Saint Jezebel The moon in the gutter Has a story to tell One day he will come back From the bowels of hell He appeared to ascend So we all stood there in awe Now we have to pretend We did not see what we saw When the curtain unveiled To the sound of applause For the king that we hailed Was the Wizard of Oz We will break away together I will be the shadow You will be the light Nothing ever lasts forever We will go softly into the night Nothing ever lasts forever We will go softly into the night
Musicians
Tobias Forge

Tobias Forge

Vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards

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